The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-02-05
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LlTHoaRAPHIC stone is found in Walker
County, Ga.
UNDYED sealskin sacques find favor in
some quarters.
IT is said that Buffalo Bill began life as
aprinter's devil.
A PROMINENT undertaken at Reno, New,
Is Coffin c. Bier.
WASH the mica Of the stove doors with
salt and vinegar
CITIZEN of Pekin, ILL.,, rejoices in the
name of Bloompot.
HONEY is much used for curing hams
now, instead of sugar.
Mr.. WARREN, of Boston, says that Adam
lived at the North Pole.
WAsHINGroN's new 100000 hotel is to
be called the Windsor
THREE-FoURTHs of the Florida orange
crop has been marketed.
ARKANSAS raises voice in favor of free
text books and against free passes.
AN artosian well at Waynesboro, Ga,
came on human bones 400 feet deep.
WOUNDED KNEE is the name of new
postofice in Shannon County, Dakota.
A sTATIsTICIAN claims there is one di-
vorce to every four and half marriages.
LoTTA, who upon the stage looks about
twenty years old, was forty the other day.
A FROZEN rabbit on the rail at Golden,
ILL.,, upset a handcar, breaking a mans
leg.
The number of idiots in the United States
increased from 34,527 in 1870 to 1886 in
| 1880
The United Labor party has put full
municipal ticket in the field at Philadel-
phia.
BUSINESS in Buenos Ayres is entirely
suspended owing to the prevalence of
cholera.
| Two citizens of Canova, D. T., ran foot
race through the snow the other night in
their bare feet.
The remains of Gambetta will soon be
removed to Paris and placed in the vaults
OF the Pantheon.
THERE is an Indian reservation of 1900
acres in North Carolina inh abited by about,
5000 Cherokees.
|
than 10000 people turned out in body to
hunt for ghost.
1T has been forty years since more than
one ballot has been required to elect U. S.
Senator in Indiana.
A NEW YORK society lady has been Of
fered 81 900 to sign her name to patent
medicine Endorsement. .r
| TuF .marohanto of Eoro,oab 10 ,po
pose adopting business hours extending
from a. m. to 6p. m.
JEFrEksuA DAVIS has berh presented
with cane cut from tree which shaded
him at the time of his surrender.
The girls Of Peru, ILL.,, are said to have
formed toboggan club, the members OF
which slide down hill on barrel slaves.
A New YORK paper suggests that the
dudes Of that city be organized and sent to
Central Africa to the relief of Emin Bey
| The new artesian we'll now being bored
at Charleston, s. c., is over 1,10O feet deep
already, with diameter of twelve inches.
BILL ARP" is delivering series of lee,
lures in Mississippi for the benefit of the
Confederate monument at Jackson, Miss
THE wife of Senator Stanford, of Cali
fornia, wore s500,0D worth of diamonds
and jewels at the late Presidential recep
ton.
The Rothschilds, who now contro' all the
quicksilver mines in the world, are said to
be intending extensive investments in gold
mines.
ANARCHIST SPIES says that Sheriff Mat
sons refusal to allow him to wed Miss
Van Zandt will upset every throne in
Europe"
FRANCE is buying large timber tracts il,
Alsace-Lorraine, apparently for the pur.
pose of building wooden barracks along
the frontier.
THERE are rumors in London Of coming
divorce case in which the principal parties
will be the Princess Louise and the Mar
quis of Lorne.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT is going into the
dairy business extensively on the farm in
Rhode Island which he recently bought
from August Belmont.
AMAN who imagined himself a telephone,
and who has been trying for year to
shout "Hello!" in his own ear, was sent to
an asylum at Flatbush, L. l.
THERE are at this time 1900 more manu-
featuring establishments in the Southern
States than in 1880, representing cash in
vestment of over $6O,0O0000.
THE highest spot inhabited by human be-
ings is said to be the Buddhist cloister Of
Hanie, Thibet, where twenty-one priests
live at an altitude of 5000 feet.
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the ''dark" continent. As he is backed by
a strong army, the chances are that he in
tends to chan e it's color to red.
IT is stated that Italy has declared its
seventeen universities open to women
Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and Den
mark have taken similar action.
A YOUNG woman of Lynn was recently
poisoned by the arsenic washed on to her
face from two birds on her bonnet while
she was riding during rain storm.
THE son of the Duchess de Galliera prob
ably has the finest collection of postage
stamps in the world. 1t fills 800 volumes
and has cost him more than S35l 1909
The teeth of citizen of North Strahavc
Pa, are all double. He can crack wal
nut, bite two-penny nail in two or lift d
quarter of beef with his teeth with ease.
A NAUGHTY editor says: "A new desiglr
for the obelisk hats is to surmount then
with a goose with outstretched wings
Hitherto the goose has been under the
hat.n